MER Article Ramadan in Wounded Baghdad In Ramadans past, teams of men drawn from neighborhoods across Baghdad faced off in nighttime matches of mihaibis (the ring game), an amusing pastime dating back to the Ottoman Empire. A ring, small enough to conceal in the palm of the hand, and unlike any other on the men’s fingers, was given to on Huda Ahmed • 4 min read
MER Article Women in the Shadows of Democracy “Life would get better.” Women throughout Iraq told themselves that constantly during the first, cautiously hopeful months of the US-British occupation of their country. As the electricity blinked on and off, the water stopped running and desert-camouflaged tanks churned up the narrow streets of th Huda Ahmed • 7 min read
